… The Democratic Party has rejected the message that drove its politics since President Bill Clinton’s administration — that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare” — and embraced abortion rights with few stipulations. Every leading Democratic presidential candidate has fallen in line. But unlike support for same-sex marriage, which […] Read more »
Trump has turned the suburbs into a GOP disaster zone. Does that doom his reelection?
For decades, there was an unvaried rhythm to life in America’s suburbs: Carpool in the morning, watch sports on weekends, barbecue in the summer, vote Republican in November. Then came President Trump. The orderly subdivisions and kid-friendly communities that ring the nation’s cities have become a deathtrap for Republicans, as […] Read more »
On impeachment of Trump, the gender gap grows wider
One of the most enduring themes of this administration — women dislike President Trump at historically high rates, while men are more tolerant of his actions — is only getting more fortified with the impeachment debate. Poll after poll shows a clear majority of women support both Trump’s impeachment in […] Read more »
The Vape Debate
On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, polls and the debate over vaping. Lots of poll numbers are being tossed around to support arguments for and against the use of e-cigarettes and other vaping devices. We sort out the quality surveys from the bad. Then, it’s a taboo topic around […] Read more »
Trump’s options for winning a second term are narrowing
The tumultuous impeachment hearings and the string of GOP election losses this fall underline the electoral risks Republicans are courting as they allow President Donald Trump to refashion the party in his combative image. In overlapping ways, the election results and the hearings — in particular Trump’s characteristically belligerent response […] Read more »
Democrats far more likely than Republicans to see discrimination against blacks, not whites
Americans are more than twice as likely to say there is at least some discrimination against blacks in the U.S. (77%) as they are to say this about whites (36%). But these opinions differ substantially along partisan lines: Far larger shares of Democrats than Republicans say there is a lot […] Read more »